{"product_id":"mercury-cd","title":"Mercury [CD]","description":"\u003ch2\u003eUpper Wilds - Mercury [CD]\u003c\/h2\u003e\nStargazing Brooklyn noise-rock cosmonauts Upper Wilds — the power-trio led by Parts \u0026amp; Labor co-founder Dan Friel — return with another set of lean anthems filtered through a flamethrower. Their speediest, most explosive album yet, Mercury, is a meditation on death, with Friel expounding on his brush with skin cancer, climate change, funerals, Henry Kissinger, and a world seemingly on fire. Buoyed by recent tours with acts like Pelican, Uniform, Psychic Graveyard and Savak, the trio’s increased speed is met with a precision that gives every hairpin turn more wallop.\nMercury’s molten, non-stop riffing is captured with grit and punch by engineer Travis Harrison (Guided By Voices, The Men) and is bolstered by longtime collaborator\/saxophonist and fellow-New York mainstay Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers) and vocalist Erin Dawson of LA-based experimental black metal band Genital Shame. Jason Binnick’s basslines shine brighter than before dancing in tandem with Friel’s guitar licks on “Death Song #3” and bringing equal parts melody and thunderous weight to “Green-Wood Cemetery.” Jeff Ottenbacher’s drumming oscillates between machine gun fills and sledge hammer pounding, giving each riff more momentum and bite.\nUpper Wilds’ space-rock adventures through their recent albums Mars, Venus, \u0026amp; Jupiter came replete with stories of the heavens and humanity alike. On this fourth installment, the closest planet to the sun, things take a darker turn. The small, barren planet Mercury was named after the gods' speedy messenger and guide to the underworld, and the album syphons Upper Wilds’ fuzz-pop aesthetics into concise, scorched anthems about the brevity and fragility of life with the ferocity of a band playing on the edge of extinction.\n1. Mercury 2. Fever 3. Death Song #3 4. Burning Bright 5. Reaper 6. Green-Wood Cemetery 7. Timekeeper 8. Dark Road 9. Hellfire 10. Dying Star","brand":"Upper Wilds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48811925373145,"sku":"790377065923","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/drownedworldrecords.com\/fr-fr\/products\/mercury-cd","provider":"Drowned World Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}